Anyone use this router bit for bindings?

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Legolas
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Anyone use this router bit for bindings?

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I found these bits at Ace Hardware:

http://www.acehardware.com/product/inde ... tId=352919

Can I use this for the binding channels?
 

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The URL you posted is incomplete.

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Re: Anyone use this router bit for bindings?

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tommyboy wrote:The URL you posted is incomplete.

-tommy
my bad....here it is

http://m.acehardware.com/product/index. ... Id=3529192
Legolas
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Re: Anyone use this router bit for bindings?

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wait it keeps truncating it..maybe this will work

http://m.acehardware.com/product/index. ... Id=3529192
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That will not work
You need to be able to change the bearing so the width of the cut matches the thickness of the binding.
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When I am going to use a router bit on a nearly completed guitar body with a bunch of my time and hundreds of dollars of wood, I am not going to consider the cheapest bit I can find. Also I find value in going to vendors I trust when buying tools when I do not have the time or the skill to evaluate. I am willing to pay for that value, especially on a tool that I will use on multiple guitars.
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johnnparchem wrote:When I am going to use a router bit on a nearly completed guitar body with a bunch of my time and hundreds of dollars of wood, I am not going to consider the cheapest bit I can find. Also I find value in going to vendors I trust when buying tools when I do not have the time or the skill to evaluate. I am willing to pay for that value, especially on a tool that I will use on multiple guitars.
Yeah, i agree. I just ordered the Stew Mac bit with the appropriate bearings....
 

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A quick search here on the KGF would have led you to this:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6089&p=30374&hilit=bearings#p30374

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